Maybe that's why they're there, to add structural strength because of the somewhat flimsy nature of aluminium. |
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He believes the new-style permits issued by the council are too flimsy and not sticky enough. |
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Boasting four fire buttons, plus a fairly flimsy throttle control, this too has plenty of features. |
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They look flimsy but I've seen even very small specimens luring several stocky zebra spiders to their doom in their webs. |
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Part of the reason I want one of these things is that my current flimsy ticket keeps getting demagnetised when it goes anywhere near my phone. |
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States which are defenseless can be attacked at will, with the most flimsy pretexts and virtually no international support. |
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Furthermore, the wild gales in summer could sometimes easily blow down the flimsy sheds. |
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The gauzy curtains might represent flimsy barriers that will be easy for you to push through to get what you need. |
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A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie. |
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Only later were they housed in flimsy huts where they continue to live today. |
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Dawn woke, shivering on the cold, hard ground in the flimsy tent that the Shadows had erected. |
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He literally trembled with excitement as he slid his right foot into the flimsy garment and pulled it up to his thigh. |
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Once again, the exegetical basis is too flimsy to support the revisionist view. |
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The longer, flimsy skirt hanging out of a coat is a rather edgy trend right now. |
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Men wearing short-sleeved shirts and girls in flimsy dresses and bare legs happily parade about in practically sub-zero temperatures. |
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She is wearing a light, flimsy dress, very fey, and her face has a faraway expression. |
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Unlike previous doors he had passed which were flimsy and made of cheap, laminated wood, this one was unscratched and made of stained rosewood. |
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He had on a blue V-neck sweater over a loose T-shirt, a short, rather flimsy jacket, jeans, sneakers, and no hat. |
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I unzipped the covering and inwardly groaned at the sight of the flimsy white dress. |
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But that just means our parks are now full of special bins containing flimsy plastic bags packed with excrement. |
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Now that she was closer, Vigilante could see her better, and noticed that she wore a flimsy nightgown. |
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I was half asleep, standing out in the freezing cold with nothing but a flimsy coat to defend my racking bones from the frigid cold. |
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There was a woman too, dressed in a flimsy robe, curled up in a chair just to the side of the big man. |
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We chose not to publish at the time as independent confirmatory evidence was too flimsy. |
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But my flimsy excuses and confusing metaphors weren't enough to keep myself convinced. |
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Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation. |
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Their only real purpose is to provide a flimsy excuse to make a recommendation. |
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What is particularly fascinating, however, is that the whole story is built on such a very flimsy foundation. |
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But the case against him was so flimsy that he was released without charge six days later. |
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Other avocado trees grew tall and rather flimsy as they were planted too close together and we did not realise that we should have topped them. |
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She wore a flimsy white cotton dress with short sleeves, a pink sash about the waist, and a skirt that blew in the wind. |
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It does not require even half an education to guess why he feels obliged to adduce flimsy evidence and extrapolate fanciful conclusions from it. |
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French supermarkets, bless them, no longer give out flimsy plastic carriers. |
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When Wray pulls on a flimsy robe to cover her scanties to answer the door, gentleman caller Raft tries to make a move on her. |
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With a power line in place, the two flimsy solar cell solution on opposite sides of the pole is feasible. |
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It has exposed mains voltage solder points on top, no earth connection and one very flimsy and very dull aluminium end. |
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First of all newspapers are rather flimsy by nature and thus quite perishable and this fragility tends to limit value. |
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Maybe it was fifteen minutes later when the scratch at the flimsy door disturbed us. |
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Irresponsible bishops are now much more likely to dump on their priests over flimsy accusations than to dump on victims for real ones. |
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Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together. |
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They sleep on flimsy mattresses and wrap themselves in parkas or sleeping bags to keep warm at night. |
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Honda's second-generation technology enables this Civic to achieve miserly fuel economy without being a flimsy little econobox. |
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Many arrests proved doubtful with large numbers of detainees held on flimsy evidence after politically motivated tip-offs by local rivals. |
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Not 25 yards behind me are nearly destitute people preparing to bed down for the night under flimsy pieces of cloth attached to poles. |
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Being no flimsy dinghy, this sailboat required a lot of muscle to set so much sail. |
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As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick. |
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On top of it all was a flimsy, translucent material embedding the palm trees picture. |
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Also, a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side. |
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The paper on which the books were printed was flimsy and cheap, and the books sold chiefly on the strength of their garish covers. |
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I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands. |
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The windows have been blacked out and in place of the flimsy trade-show stands we have modular screens, creating the feeling of separate rooms. |
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Despite my flimsy belief system, though, something told me not to mess around with this sort of thing, even though I knew it was all guff. |
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He uncrumpled the bag from around the water bottle and let the light flimsy plastic drift down behind him, idly fiddling with opening the bottle. |
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The gangplank seemed so flimsy, and every time she boarded a ship, she was afraid that it would collapse, and she would be thrown into the water. |
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Modern plastics and latex materials are too elastic and flimsy to compete with nature's brilliant design. |
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The unfamiliar sight of these flimsy crowded vessels shocked Australian audiences and awakened old fears of the yellow hordes. |
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The flimsy, irritating cardboard sleeve and rather pretentious sleeve notes don't help. |
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It's my own duty to expose Caz for the flimsy lies and unfounded insults she slaps up here on a weekly basis. |
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So I buy the wrong footwear, a flimsy slipper when my climbing style is better suited to a model with a thin mid sole. |
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Their flimsy structures are nailed together and roofed with corrugated iron. |
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Obviously this rather flimsy argument by elimination carries very little weight by itself. |
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It has a buckle on it, not some flimsy snap, so it couldn't have come loose, either. |
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Neither was she one of your brazen-faced jilts, with nothing but flimsy balderdash in their talk, and a libertine forwardness in their manners. |
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A narrow, flimsy staircase led through a hole in the ceiling to another floor upstairs. |
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Proving prostitution or related charges like soliciting and trespassing is difficult, and in most cases the evidence is fairly flimsy. |
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Every time someone takes a step anywhere in the house, these flimsy windows rattle something fierce. |
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The handbrake looks very out of place and somewhat flimsy compared to the rest of the interior. |
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Oh you studied creatures, you flimsy confections of powder and resin, set in tinsel and imitation leather! |
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His dry voice-over narration also adds considerably to the film, helping us to accept this flimsy story. |
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The trouble has been that the seemingly flimsy excuse for a bread product really can be a diet buster. |
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I'll also not forget the scene in Othello when Iago talks The Moor into believing something which flimsy evidence would easily prove to be false. |
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Even those who like their comedy gently done are likely to find this too flimsy and obvious. |
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And there was the ultralight, a flimsy little tricycle fitted with a hang-glider's wings and a motor hooked up with a propeller. |
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Horrified onlookers could only watch, as an offshore wind blew their flimsy dinghy vessel, into deeper water. |
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He was no seaman, yet those vessels looked too flimsy to his landsman's eye. |
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The slide was flimsy, and if you had the help of a stout friend you could tip it over. |
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Meanwhile, the drunken man on the other side of the room was struggling to break free of the flimsy curtain that separated us. |
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This explanation is flimsy, as chamfering generally involves rounding off the edges, rather than altering 70 percent of its surface area. |
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But super-power trappings offer only a flimsy mask for the realities of poverty and are no substitute for grassroots economic development. |
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How can we raise a secure and objective historiographical edifice on such flimsy foundations? |
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This is not a complete dissection of the flimsy arguments that underlie the country's China syndrome on nuclear weapons. |
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I bellied up to a flimsy, portable bar that had been set up for the occasion. |
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A typical design includes either a circuit board or a flimsy material that lies underneath the buttons on the keyboard. |
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The sword of Damocles that hangs over our heads is suspended by a thin and flimsy thread, indeed. |
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Aristotle was charged with preferring flimsy theories and sterile syllogisms to the solid, fertile facts. |
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Her costumes steal the show, flimsy cobwebs dew-dropped with crystals in shimmering colours. |
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Balancing a flimsy umbrella on her shoulder, she began to walk as stately and imperially as ever, into a nearby inn and bar. |
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The print on some of the photostat and carbon copy sheets has faded and these items are particularly flimsy. |
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Picking up a small dandelion as they walked, Sara struggled to blow off all the flimsy, feathery seedlings. |
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Hats must be worn, and not little feathery flimsy things, but proper ones which cover the crown. |
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It's a flimsy effort, but oddly, to me, so much more real than anything I've put on this here digital contrivance. |
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But sheerly as an exercise in English composition, Kay's statement is as flimsy as advertising copy. |
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One woman in Vicar Lane had already snapped the flimsy strap on her vest top, and laughed as her breast fell out to give a gang of cheering lads an eyeful. |
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Yet the scenery for this annus mirabilis production has always been rather flimsy. |
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Too eager to be respectful, he knocked more and more forcefully, shaking the brittle wallboards and splintering a few pieces of the flimsy sun-baked wood. |
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People needed housing, and providing this was left to jerry-builders who put together cheap, insufficient, flimsy dwellings that soon fell into disrepair. |
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It's hard to maneuver your video camera wearing flimsy hooded rainwear. |
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Hustvedt is an excellent writer but the structure of the book seems as flimsy as a house of cards, and the resolution at the end highly unsatisfactory. |
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When it comes to invading foreign countries on false or flimsy pretexts, the Russians have lots of company. |
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On the last Sunday in March, Marina is hanging diapers on a flimsy clothesline stuck in the grass in the small backyard. |
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Then she disappeared, leaving me by myself in that flimsy little dress, my makeup smudged and my hair all over the place. |
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Zuckerberg, or at least the narrow, shallow portrait painted of him in The Social Network, seems to embody that flimsy promise. |
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Putin has taken off the flimsy mask of democracy to reveal himself in full as the would-be KGB dictator he has always been. |
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Obligation, she ruefully reflected, was a flimsy basis for creativity. |
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The tamarisk trees cast flimsy shadows on the lake's surface. |
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I had been waiting a very long time for this talk with the retention officer, just so I could hear his inane babble and immediately shoot down his flimsy efforts. |
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Fishing is still an important activity in the area and one can sit for hours watching fishermen putting out to sea in unfeasibly flimsy wooden craft. |
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One of the reviews in England said my songs were flip and flimsy trifles. |
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These boxes look flimsy and remind me of the old metal money boxes for children which the most adept could easily relieve of the collected treasure. |
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They were kept inside a flimsy wire fence on an undersized dirt lot. |
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In the center of the room was a square table, flimsy like a card table. |
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The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy. |
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Like a huge pressure pushing against my skin, I could feel it trying to claw its way out of me, trying to push through the flimsy barrier of flesh my body provided. |
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From the opposite end, through a flimsy barrier of water-damaged ceiling tile, he could hear the catch in his grandmother's chest as she breathed. |
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They could have easily slipped past the flimsy barricade of starguards but the monsters merely threw themselves at them, incinerating and ripping in a frenzy. |
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The majority are trying to reach the Canary Islands in flimsy boats. |
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The families had erected flimsy tents by stitching rags together. |
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He had barely braced himself with some of his wife's flimsy dresses and a vacuum cleaner before the entire foundation shook with the impact of the rocket against it. |
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Here Kristine sat in a flimsy dress, proudly carrying Cassie on her arm. |
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Plus there was only a flimsy shower curtain between the two of us. |
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Excuses seem flimsy, and even the best are still just excuses. |
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The evidence was so flimsy that the case should never have gone to trial. |
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No, we can't let them squeak by with a flimsy excuse like that. |
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A handful had remained loyal to their oath as doctors or to their basic sense of decency and had refused to carry out instructions, citing valid excuses or flimsy pretexts. |
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Many encumbrances that our bodies endure, including detrimental ones like viruses, have an unwelcome and deeply altering effect on our already flimsy corporal authority. |
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Off she flapped, her flimsy cotton based trainers galumphing all the way. |
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Having forgotten his baseball cap in a hasty exit from his home after siesta, he has to make do with a flimsy local newspaper to fend off the Mesopotamian sun's hot temper. |
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The report is full of similar exonerations on flimsy grounds. |
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Until rugby disinvents its latest flimsy image, though, White will play the strategy games and, quite obviously, he's good at them. |
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The nest is a flimsy platform of straw and sticks, laid on a ledge, under cover, often on the window ledges of buildings. |
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He led his ships in attacks on neutral Hanseatic League and Spanish ships in the Channel on flimsy grounds of sovereignty. |
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Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand. |
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Inside there was a flimsy paper hat, a groaner of a joke and a shower buffer. |
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It comes with a soft tonneau cover which is secured by two snap fasteners, but these felt flimsy compared to the rest of the arrangement. |
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It comes with a soft tonneau cover, which is secured by two snap fasteners, but these felt flimsy compared to the rest of the arrangement. |
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Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands. |
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Lesvos is one of the Greek islands that has been overwhelmed by those arriving, often packed on to flimsy vessels. |
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But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight. |
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There was a steel napkin dispenser, the napkins themselves those little trifolds that manage to be both flimsy and sturdy at the same time, which seems impossible, but is not. |
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Cynics argue the success of the Mersey TV soap boils down to leggy blonde actresses parading themselves in flimsy plots and even flimsier clothes. |
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Indeed so meagre is the matter, so flimsy the arguments, and so unmedically are they expressed, that I scarcely believe the work was written by a medical man at all. |
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Getting your mitts on those flimsy thingamajigs with the pre-cut slats and the t-shirt shaped team tabs in club colours was one of the highlights of the season. |
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It's the euro that appears flimsy, with what look like new-fangled video-game images designed by a 20-something and hastily downloaded onto brittle paper. |
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